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Kolkata’s one the popular football club Mohun Bagan broke the curse of 13 years and won the I-League on Sunday by making a draw against Bengaluru FC 1-1 at the Sree Kanteerava Stadium, Bengaluru. It was a header from Mohun Bagan’s Nigerian defender Bello Rasaq to make the draw. When Mohun Bagan left for Bengaluru they only needed a draw ...

Fifth seeded Kei Nishikori has been qualified for the quarter-finals in French Open by defeating unseeded Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili. Nishikori won the match by 6-3, 6-4, 6-2. He became the first a Japanese male player reached the last eight at Roland Garros after 1933. Nishikori had got default win in second round when hi his scheduled opponent Benjamin Becker of ...

World number one badminton player Chen Long added another title in his diary; he won Australian Open Badminton Super series in Sydney on Sunday by defeating Denmark’s Viktor Axelsen in the final. Final was not that easy for Chen Long as he has to play three games to win it. Chen Long defeated world number nine Axelsen 21-12, 14-21, 21-18 ...

Bad news for Indian sports came when world number one and defending champion Saina Nehwal lost her quarter finals match against Wang Shixian of China in Australian Open Super Series on Friday.

It was totally unexpected for Indian fans because Wang was fifth seeded here but she dominated in the whole match and won the match by 21-15, 21-13 by second seeded Saina Nehwal. Saina just could not play up to her standard and lost the last 8 encounter in straight games in just 42 minutes.
Other India contenders were already out of the contest before quarter final stage, Saina was the ...read more

After easily get advanced in second round of doubles event in French Open Sania Mirza faced a bad defeat in the first round in mixed doubles where top seeded Sania Mirza and her Brazilian partner Bruno Soares suffered a shocking straight set defeat against unseeded German-Dutch pair Anna-Lena Groenefeld and Jean-Julien Rojer on Thursday. Match prolonged to just 56 minutes and Sania and Soares lost it by 2-6, 2-6.

Groenefeld and Rojer have played far better from Sania- Bruno. They broke the Indo-Brazilian pair in the their first service game and at one time they were 2-0 in ...read more

One of most popular international football tournament is going to start from June 2015 yes that is Copa America 2015 in Chile. Tournament will be started on 11th June 2015 and will continue till 4th July. 12 national teams will participate. Maximum teams have announced their provisional teams of 30 man squad and some announced final 23 members. Here are ...

Second round of French Open singles was not that easy for Roger Federer when his match against Spain's Marcel Granollers went to third round and Federer had to play hard to win the third one. He won the second round match by 6-2, 7-6(1), 6-3 on Wednesday. In third round Switzerland's Roger Federer will now face Marcos Baghdatis of Cyprus or Bosnian Damir Dzumhur who will fight in their second round match.

17th times Grand Slam winner Federer has not won a major grand slam since Wimbledon in 2012.

On the another match in women's singles Former champion Ana Ivanovic just able to avoid the loss in her second round at the French Open against Japanese player Misaki Doi on Wednesday.

The seventh seed Ivanovic who won the French Open title in 2008, lost her first set in front of much lower ranked Misaki Doi but overcome in second and third set to avoid an unexpected defeat. Ivanovic won the match by 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

As expected two times French Open champion Serena Williams started her this year's journey in French Open in her own style by thrashing her first's match's opponent Czech qualifier Andrea Hlavackova by 6-2 6-3 on Tuesday.

If she will be able to make it this year this will be her 20th single grand slam.

Fight against Andrea Hlavackova was totally one sided specially the first set where

Hlavackova's success was just to break Serena's serve in the fifth game. In the second round Hlavackova fought little better but not enough in front of world's no. 1.
In another match Fifth seed Caroline Wozniacki dominated a totally one sided match against Italy's Karin Knapp by 6-3, 6-0. It was a storm from Wozniacki who never gone beyond the quarterfinals in French Open. But initially she look out of form and struggled to find her rhythm. But in the second set Karin Knapp just could not get any chance as she made a total of 50 unforced errors.

Caroline Wozniacki is now going to face Germany's Julia Goerges who defeated USA's Coco Vandeweghe in a long game by 6-2, 5-7, 6-1.

Almost a good day for Indian tennis players in French Open doubles tournament. Except Mahesh Bhupathi other three player Sania Mirza, Leander Paes and Rohan Bopanna won their first round in French Open doubles with their respective partners.

In women doubles of French Open top seeded Sania and Martina Hingis had a totally one sided match which they dominated by 6-3, 6-0 win against Germany's Julia Goerges and Barbora Krejcikova. Indo-Swiss combination won 70 per cent of the first serve points.

On the other side in men's doubles, Leander Paes with his Canadian partner Daniel Nestor had a hard fight against Australian pair of James Duckworth and Chris Guccione to reach to the second round of the tournament. They won it by 6-2, 5-7, 7-5. Paes and Daniel Nestor dominated in the first round but in the second game Australian duo fought back and won it; in the third one Paes-Nestor they used their experiences to come back and won the match. Paes and Nestor saved three of the five breakpoints that came their way. Now they will face the winner of another first round match between Eric Butorac-Sam Groth and Andre Begemann-Julian Knowle.

For the first time India going to host U-17 World Cup tournament in 2017.

An official FIFA team including Jaimie Yarza (head of events) and Kelly Sathiraj (head of competitions) and Colin Smith (FIFA's director of competitions) has visited India to see the preparation and to guide local organizing committee on a short trip.

“We are on a short trip and the purpose is to get acquainted with the local organizing committee and brief them on the task ahead and exchange notes” said Smith during a media interaction on Thursday.

As per the rule the prepared stadiums will have to be handed over to FIFA a year before the start of the tournament.

The stocktaking on infrastructure development will take place during their second visit. “There will be an inspection of the pitches and the stadia by the end of this year,”
In this competition 24 teams will participate and total 52 matches will played which will hosted by 6 different venues in India.

The visiting officials discussed with the local organizing committee members how to make the existing infrastructure as per the compliant of FIFA.